Commentary The current federal debt ceiling impasse is similar to a yearly ritual in our nation’s capital. The GOP-led House recently passed a bill that would raise the ceiling but would call for nearly $5 trillion in spending cuts over the next decade. It’s a given that this bill won’t pass muster in the Democratic-led…
Predictable Yearly Debt Ceiling Shenanigans Should Be a Reminder of Fiscal Responsibility
Cohabitation Is Not the Key to Marital Success
Commentary The late James Q. Wilson wrote in his essay “Why We Don’t Marry,” “Marriage was once a sacrament, then it became a contract, and now it is an arrangement.” One of the great losses suffered by our society is the great lie that has been perpetuated, starting with the sexual revolution of the 1960s,…
King Charles III Has a Climate Record to Live Down
Commentary This Saturday’s coronation of King Charles III marks a significant moment in Britain’s history. No previous constitutional monarch has expressed his political views so openly. Unlike his mother and grandfather, whose opinions, if they had any, remained unknown to the general public, the king’s record-setting seventy years as heir apparent to the British throne…
Debt Ceiling Negotiations: 316 to Zero
Commentary Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen’s announcement that the United States government could run out of money by early June starts the next phase of the debt ceiling dance. The score at this point is House Republicans 316 to President Joe Biden and Senator Chuck Schumer zero. The 316 is the number of pages in the…
The WHO, Sovereignty, and Reality
Commentary The director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO) reassures us that WHO’s “pandemic accord” (or “treaty”) won’t reduce the sovereignty of WHO’s Member States. WHO trusts that these words will serve as a distraction from reality. Those driving the perpetual health emergency agenda are planning to give WHO more power, and States less. This…
Ukraine and Allies Must Avoid Pyrrhic Victories
Commentary The Western press is highly excited about the prospects of a counteroffensive against Russian forces occupying Ukraine. “Ukraine faces a ticking clock,” blared a New York Times headline. “It is now battered Ukraine’s turn for an offensive,” cheered the Financial Times. “The coming battle should aim to persuade Moscow of the futility of its…
Yale University and the Loneliness of the Military Professional
Commentary Many years ago, I began working on a project that eventually became this article. It started when a friend of mine, a fellow veteran, sent me Victor Hanson’s 2007 piece “Why Study War.” One of the many things that stood out to me about that article was a line from Margaret Atwood’s poem “The…
Will the Motion Picture Academy Take Richard Dreyfuss’s Advice?
May 8, 2023
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Commentary Richard Dreyfuss criticized the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ new Oscar rules in, as they say, no uncertain terms. The answer to my title question, however, is almost certainly “no bloody way”—even though Dreyfuss is an Oscar-winner himself and starred in several of the most financially successful films of all time. The…
Why Did They Kill the Things They Love?
May 8, 2023
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Commentary There are several features of the pandemic policy response that still astonish me. It does not surprise me that bureaucrats couldn’t suppress, control, much less eradicate, a respiratory virus by scrapping the Bill of Rights. What I cannot get over is all the ways that the response ended up achieving the opposite of what…
Putting Up Their Happiness as Collateral for Their Car Loans
Commentary As a university professor, one of the greatest rewards is mentoring students to realize the American Dream by pursuing a life aimed at unlocking their full human potential. Doing so requires reflection upon what it means to be human and, from there, grasping why the key to happiness is so counterintuitive: we fill ourselves…
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